I definitely have a sweet tooth. That's not the greatest thing to have on a keto diet, but everyone has a weakness I suppose. I don't really miss bread or potatoes, but cookies and cakes indeed. I did find swerve though. It is a miracle. I love it, and it has been both a hero and a villain to me. I made these lemon bars yesterday with the last of my powdered swerve. In the first batch I made a couple of wees ago I used granular, and they did turn out better. These are still pretty good. I had 3 this morning for breakfast. At 103 calories and 2.5 carbs, I didn't feel too bad. That's 309 calories and 7.5 carbs total. I tweaked the recipe found here.

CRUST: Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease a 8 x 8 square glass pan. In a medium bowl, mix ingredients. This will be a thick cookie crust; press onto bottom of pan. Place in oven to pre-bake the crust. Bake for 20 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Remove from oven and set aside to cool.

FILLING: In a medium bowl, beat the ingredients for the filling until well combined. Pour the mixture evenly over the pre-baked crust and bake again for about 30-40 minutes or until set. Let cool. Store in fridge or freezer in an airtight container. Makes about 16 bars.

Ribs

For lunch I ate some ribs that my husband grilled last night. He only added salt and pepper. I'm not completely sure about the calories, but I'm going with 304 per 4 oz. I had about 8 oz. 0 carbs, and that is the important part since I'm still not back into ketosis yet. So far I've had 917 calories or so and 7.5 carbs total. Hopefully I can make it until dinner without needing any carbs or calories for that matter.

Well I didn't make it until dinner. I ate 3 more lemon bars. Still low carb, so I'm not going to stress too much. I'm at 1227 calories and 15 carbs. I might try to stop for the day. I need to remember to drink more water too. I also ate 2 almonds. I'm trying to be completely honest with what I eat, so I wanted to go ahead and add them even though they are tiny.

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Thanks for checking out my site. I'm Brooke, and I'm trying out keto and low carb recipes from all over the web in between raising my two young boys. I'm also coming up with quite a few of my own recipes and documenting my successes and failures here.